Yeah, and that's the problem. That whole last episode was cute. Fornell was cute, Diane was cute, their squabbling was cute. The kid was cute, and even Gibbs was cute. But Bishop out-cuted them all. Granted, Ziva is a hard act to follow, but "cute" isn't the way to go.

That's about what I thought too. It looked to me as if Bishop had been given McGee's personality from when he was the new kid on the team...slightly bumbling but eager, generally na´ve but very knowledgeable in certain areas. Recycled plots are commonplace, but recycled characters?